Hacker News: phromo

New comment by phromo in "Catching the LiteLLM and Telnyx supply chain zero-days via semantic analysis"

phromo — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:01:42 +0000

The linked page seems to be a normal known vuln checker? From doc :

""" The tool will:

    Recursively find all package.json and requirements.txt files
    Parse the dependencies
    Query OSV
    Display a beautiful report

"""

New comment by phromo in "Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?"

phromo — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:58:34 +0000

I don't know why but I find performance on c#/.net be several generations behind. Sometimes right ofc but my general experience is if you pull the generation slot machine in just about any other language it will work better. I regularly do python, typescript, ruby and rust with a better experience. It's even hard to find benchmarks where csharp is included.

New comment by phromo in "Show HN: Gigacode – Use OpenCode's UI with Claude Code/Codex/Amp"

phromo — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:41:35 +0000

Spontaneously I would like a protocol between agents and the clients and that's exactly what agentclientprotocol.com is. I wonder if you shuffle acp over https is it then similar to sandbox api used here?

New comment by phromo in "I miss thinking hard"

phromo — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 05:43:16 +0000

I am thinking harder than ever due to vibe coding. How will markets shift? What will be in demand? How will the consumer side adapt? How do we position? Predicting the future is a hard problem... The thinker in me is working relentlessly since December. At least for me the thinker loves an existential crisis like no other.

New comment by phromo in "Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration"

phromo — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:44:26 +0000

I had a similar experience. However I gave up before being able to pay. Repeated the story two or three times. This was work for a medium sized Corp and in the end we didn't even give gemini a chance because of this (performance was sufficiently good with competing providers) . Really hope they up their UX.

New comment by phromo in "Show HN: AI OmniGen – AI Image Generator with Consistent Visuals"

phromo — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 19:26:51 +0000

On an A100 running 512x512 takes roughly 20s for one image+text input (50 iterations)

New comment by phromo in "Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS"

phromo — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 20:48:36 +0000

I still use Atom+Hydrogen most days.. About the same amount of years since the last (major) updates as nteract.

https://github.com/nteract/hydrogen

New comment by phromo in "Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS"

phromo — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 19:12:39 +0000

Alternatives and innovation in this space are greatly appreciated! I run Linux and Windows so I keep my eyes fixed on https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/12062#issuecommen... - - zed is a cross platform, gpu rendered, rust-based editor.. Jupyter support should arrive soonish

New comment by phromo in "Researchers to retract landmark Alzheimer's paper containing doctored images"

phromo — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 09:28:52 +0000

One red flag should be that nowhere in this news article is the reader made aware of the exact nature of the manipulated images or their implications. If you go to the linked pubpeer review page you'll find why -- it's much less dramatic and all the findings were also replicated following this inquiry to show that any image alteration, that might have been made for editorial purposes, does not affect conclusions....

Drama drama drama, feed the people more drama... sigh

New comment by phromo in "Mosaic – Scalable, interactive data visualization"

phromo — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 14:06:25 +0000

Paper: https://www.domoritz.de/papers/2023-Mosaic-VIS.pdf

Mosaic – Scalable, interactive data visualization

phromo — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 14:04:08 +0000

Article URL: https://uwdata.github.io/mosaic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37481465

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by phromo in "Enhancing Photorealism Enhancement"

phromo — Wed, 12 May 2021 08:55:52 +0000

For an example of photorealistic rendering approach coupled to a scenario generator, see https://synscapes.on.liu.se/index.html

New comment by phromo in "Show HN: Shepherd.com – Discover books in a new way, like wandering a bookstore"

phromo — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:29:10 +0000

For me, the most enjoyable part of reading is adding my own thoughts to the experience. It might be vivid imagery as part of reading a sci-fi, or musings on life and truth in a non-fiction. If you frame reading as achieving a predefined goal ("learn topic X"), it's easy to forget this part and become obsessed on speed, with the focus on "consumption" instead of "co-creation". Try setting aside 2 hours where you can either be bored or read. I typically start by relaxing. Sometimes I just relax the entire two hours and dont read at all. When I feel I'm ready, I start reading. Use a watch that measures heart rate variability if you need some extra bio-feedback to get that tension out of your body. When relaxed, your mind will do the rest.

New comment by phromo in "“Design Patterns” Aren't (2002)"

phromo — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 19:06:30 +0000

Alexander's works are wonderfully inspiring to read. I'm sure they can inspire many diverse interpretations useful for creating digital artifacts.

To the curious, note that what the patterns are is not explained in 'A Pattern Language' but instead in the companion book 'Timeless way of Building'. It's quite a philosophical exposition. It talks about evoking 'The quality without a name', that every human has the capacity to feel, but not necessary to name or dissect.

Here's a quote for the curious from 'Timeless way of Building' that I think captures somewhat what the post wishes more software designers thought about in relation to patterns:

(page 236-237, speaking about the specialisation of professions in which people's pattern languages gets lost through disconnection)

"... Of course, even now a town still gets its shape from pattern languages of a sort. The architects and planners and bankers have pattern languages which tell them to build gigantic steel and concrete buildings. The users have a few shattered patterns left in their vocabulary: a sheet of plastic to make a kitchen counter; huge plate glass windows for the living room; wall-to-wall carpet in the bathroom -- and they enthusiastically piece these patches together, whenever they have a free weekend.

But these remnants of our former languages are dead and empty. They are based mainly on the by-products of industry. People use plate glass windows, formica counters, wall-to-wall carpet, because industry makes them available, not because these patterns contain anything essential about life, or how to live it.

The time when a pattern language was a song, in which people could sing the whole of life, is gone. The pattern languages in society are dead. They are ashes and fragments in the people's hands"